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Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
Mario Peshev
July 13, 2024
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3 Ideas For Better Habits
The Power of Choice and Discipline
Business consultant and author, Jim Collins, on achieving greatness.
"Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline."
Source: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't Finding Meaning in Suffering
Psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor, Viktor E. Frankl, on the power of purpose.
"In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice."
Minister and author, Norman Vincent Peale, on the destructiveness of worry.
"YOU DO NOT need to be a victim of worry. Reduced to its simplest form, what is worry? It is simply an unhealthy and destructive mental habit."
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